I mean, as it was I wanted the big finish something awful, and what we were given wasn't the slightest bit interesting to me. Parkour would have been a huge upgrade.
My feeling exactly. It felt as if the whizzbang opening (seriously, I was the slack-jawed demographic they were pitching to) ended up being something of a bait and switch.
What is this dopey, nonsensical sentimentality? Where did my kickass, richly dark, hugely creative movie go?
I loved Waitress not for its provenance or even because my soopersekritcelebrityboyfriend was in it...but because it joins the pack of little teeny, slice-o-life movies that just make me feel good. Dear Frankie, A Slipping Down Life, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself...and on and on...I love them all.
eta: Oh, and The Girl in the Cafe, Sliding Doors, Dirty Filthy Love, Home Movie.
Beej, have you ever seen Sarah Polley in My Life without Me? It strikes me as being similar to those movies, and something you might like.
It's been in my queue forever. I'll move it up!
Just the name reminds me to My First Mister which nearly broke me. Cliche? You betcha...completely predictable? uh HUH. But still I loved it.
I thought Leelee Sobiyeksi and Albert Brooks were both wornderful in that, Beej, even though it was pretty cliche and predictable.
Albert Brooks in particular seems to be able to do great stuff with pretty average material. See:
Defending Your Life.
Complete agreement on both counts.
It's been in my queue forever. I'll move it up!
Just don't watch on a day when you're feeling mopey. They have a picture of the movie poster next to the word "anomie" in the dictionary.
It feels late now, but I had to chime in to say that I saw PoTC3 on Sunday and DH and I both thought it was so funny. And way better than either of the other two (although I was bored by most of the second one). It just seemed funny in lots of ways, like stupid obvious pranks, but also funny lines.
I'm watching the HBO series
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
So good.
Colour me blind! Tia Dalma (the witchy woman) from PotC2 and 3 was the black chick in
28 Days Later.
Never would have gotten that without IMDB. Need to add her to my site, stat.
I might go see two movies back-to-back this weekend--both Paris, Je T'aime and Once will be playing at the Highland Park arthouse theatre by this Friday, and I really want to see both. Once is only about 90 minutes long, so seeing both of them together shouldn't be too much.
